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Vol. 35, No. 1 and No. 2 (2012)

The Chariton Review publishes the best in short fiction, poetry, translations, and essays in two issues each year. This international literary journal founded in 1975 by Andrew Grossbardt and edited by Jim Barnes from 1976 to 2010 and now edited by James D’Agostino.

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Contents

Vol. 35, No. 1

The Chariton Review Short Fiction Prize, 2012

Judge: Kellie Wells

Winner
Waimea Williams: Vienna Quartet, With Dog

Finalists
Martha L. Burns: City of Paris
Heidi Naylor: A Season of Curing
Mil Norman-Risch: Leave It

Short Fiction
Rachel Kincaid: Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Essays
Chad Hanson: Call the Wild by Its Name

Poetry
David A. Axelrod
Decorum in Poured Concrete
A Story as I Sharpen My Knife
Swallow It
The Kabab Stand

Matt Mauch
My brother the reluctant hiker . . .
The ribs and sternum being no kind of fence
O green and white porcelain, O representation of frog
She loves me, she loves me not
Thoughts like the molecules of exhaust . . .
So much depends on the rains, on the runoff

Ben McClendon
Revolutionary Hymns
Inconsequential

Paul Nelson
Learning to Miss
Ebb
Equinox
Icebox

Brady Rhoades
Uncle Patrick
1973

Bradford Tice
Seagulls at the Local Walmart in a Landlocked State

Charles Harper Webb
The Good Survives
Violence
Out of Sight . . .

Steven Wingate
Octet of Praise and Animosity for New York
Octet of Distorted Affection for Paris
Octet of Nostalgic Longing for Los Angeles

"The Beginner’s Cow: Memories of a Volga German from Kansas" by Loren Schmidtberger— At the age of seven, Loren Schmidtberger was assigned to a beginner’s cow—the gentlest cow in the herd and the easiest for a child just beginning to milk. As he learned to milk with the help of the cow, he also learned the art of living from the unforgiving reality of the Dust Bowl years tempered by the steadfast resilience of his Volga German community.